The former power couple married in 1994 and had their only child, Ava, three years later, however, the marriage didn’t last and they divorced ten years later.

Richie has struggled with substance abuse and as recently as 2011 checked himself into rehab to try to deal with the problem, but apparently him and ex Heather Locklear have a great relationship post-divorce.

Their daughter seems to be a normal teenager who belongs to her High School’s cheerleading squad.

“I like being thrown in the air!” Ava Sambora told Teen Vogue in an interview earlier this year. “It’s an adrenaline rush.”

The fact that she plans to follow in her famous mother’s footsteps and become an actress comes as no surprise:

“Ever since I was five or six, I’ve wanted to be an actress,” Sambora explains. “I loved attention and would always try to be onstage and in front of people. It was easy to figure out what I wanted to be.”